Just a block away from their beloved restaurant of 15 years, the owners of Global Grill have officially opened the doors on their second venture.

Urban Swinery fully opened this week at 19 Palafox Place in downtown Pensacola after holding a series of soft openings, then briefly closing as Hurricane Michael passed through the Panhandle.

The 2,500-square-foot restaurant is a much more casual endeavor for co-owners Frank and Jane Taylor. When the property became available for lease in 2017, the married couple seized a long-awaited opportunity to open a sister restaurant that toned down the upscale atmosphere without skimping on the food quality.

"We love Global Grill, that's still always gonna be our baby, but we have the white tablecloths in there and everything and I think that kind of scares some people off," said Jane Taylor, who also serves as the front-of-house manager. "Like it's pretentious or something. Which it's not, but we just wanted something more casual. Head Chef Frank Taylor and the kitchen staff have been curing and smoking, and making all this stuff from scratch."

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Pork is to Urban Swinery what tapas are to Global Grill. The "Go Pig or Go Home" sandwich, for instance, features 24-hour smoked pig butt, grilled andouille sausage, pig planks, barbecue sauce, vinegar slaw and pickles on a pretzel roll. The staff even dons black T-shirts with the "Go Pig or Go Home" slogan on them, front and center.

Chef Frank and his team take classic sandwiches like the ham & cheese and the Muffaletta and give them a twist — the Swinery's "Deep Fried Ham & Cheese" is made with rosemary-smoked ham, aged provolone, muenster cheese, tart cherry mustard, raspberry fig jam and powdered sugar.

"Seriously, every single thing is made from scratch here except for the hard cheeses," Jane Taylor said. "The andouille, pig planks is our cool bacon. We make the barbecue sauce from scratch, the vinegar slaw, even the pickles. Everything is made in-house. Which, honestly, a lot of people say that but they're lying their faces off."

But it's certainly not all about the food at Urban Swinery. Hence the name, which Jane Taylor said is meant to incorporate the two primary facets of the Swinery's identity: The pork and the wine.

On a wall toward the middle of the restaurant is a wine rack showcasing the 100 bottles of wine available at the restaurant. Of the 100 bottles, about 45 of them are served by the glass, either in four- or six-ounce pours. The other 60 are only sold by the bottle.